Title Rites of execution : capital punishment and the transformation of American culture, 1776-1865 / Louis P. Masur.

Publication Info.	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1989.
	(1991 [printing])

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) : illustrations, 1 facsimile
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-197) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Ritual and reform in antebellum America -- The design of public executions in the early American republic -- The opposition to capital punishment in post-Revolutionary America -- The dream of reformation and the limits of reform -- The origins of private executions in America -- Anti-gallows activists and the commitment to moral reform -- The conflict over capital punishment in antebellum America -- Epilogue.
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Subject	Capital punishment -- United States -- History.
	Capital punishment.
	United States.
	History.
	Executions and executioners -- United States -- History.
	Executions and executioners.
Indexed Term	Capital punishment History
	United States
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Masur, Louis P. Rites of execution. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1989 0195048997 0195066634 (DLC) 88022719 (OCoLC)26892965
ISBN	142373694X (electronic book)
	9781423736943 (electronic book)
	0195048997 (alkaline paper)
	9780195048995 (alkaline paper)
	0195066634 (paperback)